ES Avignon Basket

Entente Sportive Avignon Basket
Location Avignon, France France
Team colors Blue & white
         
Uniforms

Entente Sportive Avignon Basket is a French former basketball club that was based in Avignon. Thereafter, it became the Athletic Union Avignon-Le Pontet Basket, which is the leading club in the city, and becoming in 2014, Grand Avignon Sorgues Basket.

History

At the end of the 1976-77 season, ES Avignon rose to the French Division 1, under the leadership of its captain, Antoine Cerase, the American Mike Hopwood, and the great French hope of the time, Philippe Szaniel. The club competed for 12 seasons in the elite level championship of France, and had a record of 110 wins, 7 draws, and 199 losses in 316 games.[1]

Notable players

  • France Didier Dobbels
  • France Alain Larrouquis
  • France Philip Szanyiel
  • France Franck Cazalon
  • France Antoine Cerase
  • United States Vince Taylor
  • United States Horace Wyatt
  • United States Tom Snyder
  • United States Pat Burtey
  • France Bernard Van den Broeck
  • United States Emmanuel Schmitt

References

  1. ↑ Site de Basketarchives.fr, page sur le superclassement de Template:1ère division, consulté le 15 janvier 2011.
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